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Tuesday, June 2, 2015

Mainstream Publications Rip Jay Z And Tidal Streaming Service To Shreds Implying He Is Suffering From Delusions Of Grandeur

Jay-Z

Mainstream business newspaper Bloomberg has published a
scathing, sarcastic and cutting piece on rapper Jay Z and his
delusions of grandeur via his and Madonna's online music
streaming service Tidal. The company has been branded a
"failure" "fiasco" and "bad investment" by real business
professionals. Bloomberg joins Complex, Rolling Stone and a host
of other mainstream publications, who have been highly critical
of subpar Tidal, which is a greedy money grab by Jay Z and
company, who ripped off the music streaming service Spotify.

When a terrible public backlash ensued and their $55,000,000
investment in Tidal began going up in smoke, money that came
courtesy of loans, Jay Z began to publicly lash out. He even
pulled the race card, invoking slavery claims, when he
routinely steals preexisting copyrights from black singers,
songwriters, producers, musicians, authors and filmmakers, for
undue and illegal enrichment. Twitter also slammed Jay Z's
slavery claims, publicly noting in tweets that Tidal has no
black employees.

The article sarcastically makes reference to Jay Z's
delusions of grandeur, "Jay Z also aspires to be one of the
world’s great businessmen. 'I affiliate with Billy Gates, that’s
my peer,' he once rapped. And: 'You looking at the black Warren
Buffett.'" The fact of the matter is Jay Z is out of his mind to
think he is in the same class as Gates or Buffett, two
billionaires, who are intelligent and well educated.

Jay Z is a mentally deficient Hollywood thief, who has racked
up many copyright infringement and trademark infringement
lawsuits, filed by people domestically and all over the world,
for criminally stealing people's preexisting intellectual
property, which all comprise his career and the contents of his
bank accounts.

Jay Z is an unintelligent fraud, who relies on ripping off
people to get money, which is criminal. He is not a legitimate
achiever. Everything he has is stolen from others. He further
lacks the mental capacity to be a great businessman, as
evidenced by his speech (and that of his wife Beyonce) and their
appalling track record for theft. Publicists and lawyers prepare
items for the couple to recite, but catch them flatfooted asking
either a serious and intelligent question and you will get a
dumb answer or them reciting something someone else wrote or
stated (there exists evidence of them having done this).

The ironic thing about the thief Jay Z is you steal from him
(or even bootleg his music) and he will stab you (as he did to
Lance "Un" Rivera) or have someone inflict grievous bodily
injury to you (as his thuggish bodyguards have done to people in
America, with one incident caught on camera). Real businessmen
do not behave in this ignorant manner. Thugs and criminals do.
Jay Z calls himself a genius, when he is illiterate and couldn't
obtain a high score on a properly administered aptitude test
(that his publicist or lawyer didn't give him all the answers to
in advance).

Everything about Jay Z has been one big scam, from his
marriage to Beyonce (which her uncle and others in the industry
are stating is a fake and business arrangement) to his record
sales (he has fraudulently added 30,000,000 copies to his album
sales tally and ran Soundscan scams he was caught red-handed
perpetrating) to the value of Rockafella (he claimed it was
worth $125,000,000 when business magazines stated it is worth
$25,000,000).

STORY SOURCE

That’s Business, Man: Why Jay
Z’s Tidal Is a Complete Disaster

Like many rappers, Jay Z writes songs that have a paranoid
streak. He lashes out against conservative cable news anchors,
overzealous cops, lazy music critics, and less talented
lyricists, all of whom, he insists, are out to get him because
he’s famous. On May 16, Jay Z uncorked one of these bilious
anthems, Say Hello, from his 10th studio album, American
Gangster, at an exclusive performance for people who’ve signed
up for Tidal, his subscription-only streaming-music service.
Stalking the stage at New York’s Terminal 5, Jay Z addressed
critics of his new venture, who have savaged it as tone-deaf,
unimpressive, and—perhaps most wounding for a celebrity who
famously boasted “I’m a business, man”—a lousy investment...

Jay Z unveiled Tidal at a press conference in late March,
flanked by 15 of the biggest acts in the music business,
including his wife, Beyoncé, Madonna, Nicki Minaj, Rihanna, Jack
White, and Kanye West, all of whom were introduced as equity
shareholders. Many seemed awkward and unprepared. Another owner,
Alicia Keys, quoted Nietzsche and gushed about Tidal’s cultural
significance: “We’re gathered?…?with one voice, in unity, in the
hopes that today will be another one of those moments in time, a
moment that will forever change the course of music history.”
There was a lot of utopian rhetoric about restoring the value of
music in the digital age. Less time was spent on new features,
technology, or other reasons for listeners to try—and pay for—a
Tidal subscription.

The backlash was immediate. Tidal’s detractors weren’t just
the predictably vexatious music bloggers, who described the
service as little more than a vehicle for musical plutocrats to
line their pockets. The haters also included some of Jay Z’s
peers. “They totally blew it by bringing out a bunch of
millionaires and billionaires and propping them up onstage and
then having them all complain about not being paid,” said Ben
Gibbard, lead singer of the indie rock group Death Cab for
Cutie. The habitually caustic Noel Gallagher of Oasis told
Rolling Stone, “Do these people think they are the f---in’
Avengers? They are going to save the f---in’ [world]?” In late
May Tidal hovered at No.?9 on the iTunes list of top-grossing
music apps, trailing Slacker Radio...